Radomiro Tomic (mine)
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Radomiro Tomić mine, is located at ( ), 1.670 km north of Santiago, Chile, at 3.000 meters above sea level in the Andes Range. Radomiro Tomic mine is near to Chuquicamata mine and Calama city in the region of Antofagasta. It is an open pit mine that extracts oxide minerals.
Although this deposit was discovered in the 1950´s, its operations started in 1995, after Codelco updated the feasibility studies for its exploitation and had the necessary technology to exploit it profitably.
Today, Chilean Copper Corporation (Codelco) controls the mine. Until 1999 Radomiro Tomic had the name "Codelco Chile Division Radomiro Tomic" , since then (Codelco) renamed it to "Codelco Norte".
